Atlas (moon crater)
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| Atlas and Hercules with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 46.67 ° N , 44.34 ° E | |
| diameter | 87 km | |
| depth | 2050 m | |
| Card sheet | 27 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Atlas | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Atlas is an impact crater on the northeastern front of the moon on the southeastern edge of Mare Frigoris . It lies east of the somewhat smaller Hercules crater . Its bottom has pronounced fracture structures, the Rimae Atlas , which is why it is counted among the floor-fractured craters (class I).
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 45.31 ° N , 49.5 ° E | 23 km | [1] |
| D. | 50.36 ° N , 49.64 ° E | 26 km | [2] |
| E. | 48.54 ° N , 42.44 ° O | 58 km | [3] |
| G | 50.7 ° N , 46.47 ° O | 21 km | [4] |
| L. | 51.31 ° N , 48.58 ° O | 5 km | [5] |
| P | 49.65 ° N , 52.95 ° O | 27 km | [6] |
| W. | 44.41 ° N , 44.19 ° E | 5 km | [7] |
| X | 45.11 ° N , 45.05 ° E | 5 km | [8th] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after Atlas , the titan of Greek mythology.
Web links
- Atlas in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Atlas on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [9]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .